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<div>Design Week Portland is around the corner! IxDA PDX is hosting a DWP workshop with the estimable Leo Frishberg on<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><strong>Presumptive Design</strong>.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a 5-hour (with snack breaks, we promise) hands-on workshop. Participants will work in small teams. We'll use the Presumptive Design techniques Leo teaches us to explore solutions to a surprise problem, and then test those solutions with real users.</div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Time:</strong></div><div><span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">Thursday, October 9</span></span></div><div><span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">1pm-6pm</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Location:</strong></div><div>Art Institute of Portland Culinary Building</div><div>34 NW 8th Ave</div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Cost:</strong></div><div>$75</div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Tickets:</strong></div><div><span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presumptive-design-workshop-tickets-13169938641" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presumptive-design-workshop-tickets-13169938641</a></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div>Questions? Shoot us an email at<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:ixdapdx@gmail.com" target="_blank">ixdapdx@gmail.com</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Full Description</strong></div><div>Join the IxDA Portland Design Challenge for Design Week Portland for an intensive hands-on design charrette exploring solutions to a surprise problem.&nbsp;</div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Working in small groups, professionals from across the design spectrum will learn Presumptive Design, a design-research technique for capturing the unmet, and often unspoken, needs of your users. Extending beyond the Lean UX notion of design experiments, Presumptive Design reveals far more than users' reactions to your proposed solution.&nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Meet others in the design community and learn how to leverage your design skills to provoke amazing conversations.</span></div><div><br /></div> </div>
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<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Did you miss last month’s Interaction’14 conference in Amsterdam? Yes? Well read on…</p><p>We’ve watched all 35 hours of video from Interaction’14 and picked out the best of the best to share with you at this year’s IxDA PDX conference redux. Yes, that’s right, this year, we’re having a movie night!</p><p>Doors open at 6:00 for drinks, food and conversation.&nbsp;<br />Movie time starts at 6:45 sharp.</p><p>As in previous years, we are being generously hosted by Ziba Design, which means you’ll have a great view of the proceedings.</p><p>Register online:<br /><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ixda-pdx-interaction-conference-redux-tickets-10829731017">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ixda-pdx-interaction-conference-redux-tickets-10829731017</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p>We want to meet / catch up with you. &nbsp;If you're headed to the conference next week, let us know and we'll organize a gathering of Pacific Northwest folks.</p><p>Email us at ixdaseattle@gmail.com and we'll get the ball rolling.</p><div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="og_links first last"><a href="/local/ixda-seattle">IxDA Seattle</a></li>
</ul></div>http://www.ixda.org/node/37302#commentshttp://www.ixda.org/crss/node/37302IxDA VancouverIxDA PortlandIxDA SeattleWed, 29 Jan 2014 21:10:45 +0000cathiet37302 at http://www.ixda.orgDan Klyn + Mozilla's new office + Food + Drinks = Proficuoushttp://www.ixda.org/local/event/37180
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<p><strong>6pm </strong><span><span>E</span><span>at, drink Mozilla's beer, and hang out with Portland's IxD community<br /></span></span><strong>6:30pm </strong>Interview with Dan Klyn, his talk, and then audience Q&amp;A</p><p><strong>Sign Up<br /></strong><a class="url u-url" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-it-usable-yet-find-out-about-the-value-of-ucd-ia-in-contemporary-ux-tickets-10202918203">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-it-usable-yet-find-out-about-the-value-of-ucd-ia-in-contemporary-ux-tickets-10202918203</a></p><p><strong>Is It Usable Yet?<br /></strong><span>Forty years on, it's easy to forget that user-centered design and information architecture were once disruptive new ideas. Today, they're both presumed to be kind-of "thrown in" when UX work is being done.</span></p><div class="description e-description"><p>"Of course we're user centered: that's the U in UX!"</p><p>"Of course we did the IA - we've got navbars and a site map, don't we?"</p><p>But as Peter Morville notes, when something is a part of everybody's job, that thing ends up being nobody's job and it does not get done right.</p><p>What's the situation around, and value of, UCD and IA in contemporary UX practice? Find out in a lively Q&amp;A and short presentation on January 28 at Mozilla's office in Portland with Dan Klyn from The Understanding Group. There will be food and drink at the event.</p><p>Spoiler: what these things mean today is amazing, essential, transformative and not what you probably expect.</p><h3>About the Speaker</h3><p>Dan Klyn is co-founder of The Understanding Group (TUG), teaches information architecture at the University of Michigan School of Information and serves on the board of the IA Institute. He does IA work for clients including Herman Miller and JSTOR and his research focus is also his hero: Richard Saul Wurman.</p></div><p>&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p>The Applied Improv Network, Northwest Regional Chapter is hosting an evening to explore the intersection of design and improv. Come and join us!</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Design Thinking, Doing, and Improvising with Patricia Colley and Shimon Shmueli&nbsp;</p><p>An evening lecture and demo - Thursday June 20, 2013</p><div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="og_links first last"><a href="/local/ixda-portland">IxDA Portland</a></li>
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<p><span>A 3-hour participatory class exploring the imaginative process of creating, crafting and telling stories, for writers, designers, or anyone who communicates for a living. Hone your skills with a combination of improv, narration, physical imagery, writing, drawing and other storytelling tools. Bring pen and paper. Got a specific problem, project or idea you want to work on?</span></p><div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="og_links first last"><a href="/local/ixda-portland">IxDA Portland</a></li>
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<p><span>You are invited to an evening of food, drinks and thought provoking presentations revisiting the topics of the 2013 international IxDA conference that was held in Toronto, Canada this January.</span></p><p><a href="http://ixdapdx.eventbrite.com">http://ixdapdx.eventbrite.com</a></p><div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="og_links first last"><a href="/local/ixda-portland">IxDA Portland</a></li>
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<p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Date:</strong> February 20, 2013</p><p><strong>Time: </strong>5:30pm - 7:30pm</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> ISITE Design in the Community Room, 2030 NW Pettygrove Street</p><p>Digital Dialogues is a quarterly event series developed by AIGA Portland in partnership with IxDA and sponsored by FILTER Talent and ISITE Design. Each event provides a sneak peek into a different collaborative case study.</p><p>Price to attend | Free for AIGA members, $10 for non-members</p><p>Food / Beer / Wine will be provided.</p><p><strong>Register:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="http://digitaldialogues-thebrigade.eventbrite.com/">http://digitaldialogues-thebrigade.eventbrite.com</a></p><p>Join the team from The Brigade as they give us a glimpse into their process of designing, developing and managing the Spotify On Tour project.</p><p>Spotify asked the Portland design studio to create a memorable and socially engaging experience that introduced concertgoers and their Facebook friends to the vast Spotify music library. In response, The Brigade transformed a tour bus into a giant, crowd-controlled boombox.</p><p>Using their iPhones, connected users could play any song in the Spotify library, creating a massive, party-curated playlist blasting from the bus (which also doubled as a bar). They built a unique experience while also handling everything from the Boombox app and backend architecture, to social media engagement via a microsite and Facebook app, Instagram, and Twitter.</p><p>Anything can and will happen on tour. What do you do when cellular reception is disrupted, the satellite is blocked and somebody spilled a beer on the pep wave router? Find our how The Brigade designed a system to withstand the rigors of the road.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Saturday, February 9, 2013 from 10am<span>–</span>5pm</h3><h3>&nbsp;</h3><div class="website"><a class="url" rel="nofollow" href="http://worldiadaypdx2013.eventbrite.com/">http://worldiadaypdx2013.eventbrite.com/</a></div><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Description</h3><div class="description"><p>Welcome to World Information Architecture Day 2013! Please register for this event on Eventbrite.</p><p>Come learn about what Information Architecture means and about some of the challenges facing Portland's leading practitioners.</p><p>Ideal for:&nbsp;Anyone interested in technology, creative tech, business of tech, industry pros, students and everyone in between.&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks to our sponsors: AIGA, IxDA, PDX Web and Design Meetup, Northwest Creatives Social Club, People's Sandwich of Portland and Floyd's Coffee</p><p>Our speaker lineup is amazing!</p><p>10am:&nbsp;Jeanne Turner-Walmart Labs&nbsp; Cultivating Good Will in the Digital World When we have to wait 20 minutes for service after being seated at a restaurant, or when a grocery store is disorganized and the clerk is distracted and unhelpful, then we know that something is wrong with the situation. In the physical world, lack of information and poor interactions are obvious. In the physical world, we know how to make improvements that increase customer satisfaction. How can we translate this understanding to the digital world? What do we need to understand about human nature to improve digital experiences? In this talk, Jeanne Turner will discuss concepts and techniques that allow us to cultivate good will in the digital world.</p><p>11am: Patricia Colley-Interactionflow Civilizing Information Architecture: A meditation on systems design What is the scope of information architecture practice? To design optimal architectural structures, we know we must empathize with its inhabitants, and apply deep expertise in organization, language and flow. But we've learned, this alone will not ensure a design's success. As we dive deeply into the churning sea of design and technology trends, tools and methods, we often forget how we orient to design practice, and its increasingly complex problems, as thoughtful human beings. Will our apps, widgets and gadgets come to serve us, or will we lose ourselves in a wilderness of unmitigated digital distractions and breakdowns? To civilize our digital future, we are compelled to take a systems view of design practice. We are compelled to shift our perspectives and spark grander dialogues.This session will examine the origins and evolution of the IA role, the current and emerging climate in which our products reside, and put forth a few principles and methods to help answer the call to broaden our vision and expand our influence in a changing world.</p><p>12p:&nbsp;Huston Hedinger-Wikisway Networks as a User Interface The mathematics of graph theory and its many applications via network science in sociology, bioinformatics, intelligence, and even physics, represent a paradigm shift in how we study and consider information. Over the last 30 years, machines have allowed us to structure data in such a way that allow us to analyze the complex interactions between the individual actors in networks. These interactions turn out to reveal patterns that are both predictable and obedient to mathematical laws- many in the academic community are just beginning to grasp the power an the importance of these claims. The ability to visualize networks allowing the researcher/user/customer to quickly understand the structure and behavior of a network is the main focus of this talk.</p><p>1p:&nbsp;Matthew Baranauskas and Noah DiJulio-Ziba Meeting the Challenges of Innovating on Top of Existing Platforms Information architecture is the keystone of every digital experience. It's where consumer needs and desires often collide with a brand's hopes and dreams. The danger for companies as they grow is figuring out how to integrate new features into their customer's existing experience. Using real world examples and personal anecdotes, Matthew and Noah will discuss how they navigate the challenge of innovating on top of existing platforms using a consumer-centric approach. You'll gain perspective on where to look for inspiration and insight, how to prioritize features into something that is meaningful and authentic, and how not to lose your mind in the process.</p><p>2p:&nbsp;Joel Barker&nbsp;and&nbsp;Michael Sulis-Wordlions&nbsp;and Summit Energy Tech, respectively Capture, Tagging and Release of Institutional Knowledge: Delivering Information in the Real World When creating a system to deliver institutional information outside of the organization, the success of the project rests on understanding the requirements and work process of all stakeholders. In this case study, Summit Energy Tech and Word Lions collaborated to collect, organize, and make available the mission critical institutional knowledge that was the foundation of our client’s relationship with their customers. This presentation will cover not only our solution, but the points where understanding the client capacity makes the difference between implementation and project failure.</p><p>3p:&nbsp;Alison Stump-The Social Wall Visualizing Insight: Getting Started in Information Architecture Information Architecture has only recently been given the respect it deserves by those outside the realm of User Experience. Often the designs we build are so elegant they appear simple. The average person on the street knows that a menu bar probably goes at the top of the page. In most cases its "common sense". It is positioned on the top of the page because an Information Architect thought about all the options, considered the usability and user research data and delivered a product that just works.That is what information Architecture is. So how do you do it? We will discuss a basic schema, various tools and resources to help you get started as well as key terms and phrases that will allow you to escalate your career.</p><p>4p:&nbsp;Dedrick Sprick-OHSU Progressive Content Strategy: A content commitment model There are a lot of hurdles to overcome for managing content well on any site. Managing content well includes knowing your website, scheduling tasks, getting the resources together, staying on top of trends and responding to visitor needs. Learn how to tackle this monumental task one step at a time, so your team can grow with your website. &nbsp;</p><p>We can have only 80 guests/session, so it's all first come, first served, so make sure you're on time!&nbsp;</p><p>Also, food and drink is allowed, but not provided. Please go to Floyd's Coffee across the street or People's Sandwich of Portland to find food, or bring your own.</p><p>Afterparty @Backspace 'til whenever. Please register through Eventbrite for this.<a href="http://worldiadaypdx2013.eventbrite.com/">http://worldiadaypdx2013.eventbrite.com/</a></p><p>Hope to see you all here! &nbsp;</p></div><p>&nbsp;</p> </div>
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</ul></div>http://www.ixda.org/local/event/33782#commentshttp://www.ixda.org/crss/node/3378245.522630 -122.671297IxDA PortlandSat, 09 Feb 2013 16:29:36 +0000Jeanne Turner33782 at http://www.ixda.org